On September 17, 1859, Joshua Abraham Norton, dissatisfied with the “evils under which the country [was] laboring,” hand-delivered a letter to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin declaring himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States. The absurdity of this declaration was no doubt obvious to the paper’s editors and yet they printed the letter in the e…
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